Um, in OS/2 (and eCS for that) we can just copy stuff to our CD drives. While I do like a lot of what linux groups are doing, shouldn't this be the end goal of cdrecord- to make CDs and DVDs transparent to the end users as a type of medium? As long as it holds data, you should be able to treat it like anything else on the system. Just like FTP and such. You shouldn't need extra commands to get it done.

I checked the printer friendly layout and couldn't get the problem to replicate on my system. There are several things that could cause this but most probably it is a printer font setting or a lack of a specific font being available that is causing the problem.

If you want me to help you with this email me at webmaster@ssc.com with "printer friendly problem" in the subject line.

All the new OSs and windowing systems are oriented towards content consumption instead of content production.

I have the same SCSI based HP 9600 CD Writer.I used K3B for a long time on Suse 9.2 and before. Since I upgraded to OpenSuse 10, every time I launch K3B, it locks up after trying to locate the device and I have to force terminate it. As a work around, I have been using this method and working very well. I like K3B and like to solve this issue, has any one encountered this problem and have a fix for it? Much appreciated.

that was exactly what I needed, just upgraded to kernel 2.6 and
cdrecord stopped working since I lost the scsi emulation. such a
simple fix but I couldn't find it mentioned in the cdrecord documentation.

This "howto" is way too old deprecated (1 technical one: ide-scsi is no more needed if you are using 2.6, which is out for a while now, plus most ppl are using dvd now - mostly with growisofs||dvdrecord)

Yes DVDs are being used alot, but that doesn't preclude the need to write CD's. Perhaps a followup to this article will be writing DVD's with dvd-record or some such. This is still a good article for someone who doesn't know how to do this yet. I do agree that mention should be made that ide-scsi is no longer needed with the 2.6 kernel.

However, for the typical luser, using K3b is going to be much easier. I guess this author never noticed the menu options for burning a CD (or DVD) from an ISO image. And K3b can create the ISO image, then allow the "project" to be saved. If you update the individual files that are part of the project, you can open K3b, load in the (old) project, and burn another ISO and automatically get the new file contents. (I use this for adding my own content to SUSE and FC DVD images.)

Btw, growisofs only works on DVDs (and most of them, but not all). Yet that's hidden by K3b, so the user just says "burn CD" or "burn DVD" and off it goes!

Relying on K3B or other GUI-based tools to burn a disk is not sufficient. I am at this very moment burning a new Kubuntu CD using cdrecord because my KDE is all screwed up and K3B (among other things) segfaults when I try to start it.

Newer is not always better, and having a Plan B is often a very valuable thing. Rock on, cdrecord!

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